Padding with selvedge



April 1, 1930. EN SITTQN 1,753,138

PADDING WITH SELVEDGE Filed May 20, 1929 2 he?! 3 L is 4j I I4 I M A? i I firfiir-F ""1" flint is ypgaqm wwv I gwomtoz Patented Apr. 1, 1930 unirsn STATES PATENT OFFICE EUGENE N. SITTON, OF LA FRANCE, SOUTH CAROLINA PADDING WITH SELVEDGE Application filed May 20, 1929. Serial No. 364,593.

The object of my invention is to provide ing the padding to taper in thickness near padding for use on ironing machines which and at the end of the fabric. The weave of has a novel form of selvedge, whereby it may the padding is a multiple ply plain weave, be wrapped around the roller of the ironing as shown in detail in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 ot' the 5 machine more smoothly than would otherdrawings. 55

wise be possible. l/Vhat I claim is:

I attain these and other objects of my inl. A padding for use on the rollers of ironvention by the means illustrated in the acing machines comprising a thickly woven companying drawings, in which,- padding tormed'of warp threads, a plurality 19 Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of of weft strands arranged one over the other paddlng illustrating my selvedged edge and with a plaln weave, said strands having an showing the weave of the padding; 7 end portion of substantial length through Fig. 2 1s a detail sectional view on hne22 which no warp threads cross to provide an of Fig. 1; end portlon of less thickness than the main 15 Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on line 33 body of the padding, the ends of the respec- 7 of Fig. l; tive weft threads each being looped, and hav- Fig. 4 is a detail sectional View on line 4-4 ing a single warp strand extending through of Fig. 1; and said loop. an Fig. 5 is a View of three strands of the pad- 2. A padding for use on the rollers of ironding detached from each other to more clear lng machines comprising a thickly woven ly show the disposition of the respective padding formed of warp threads, a plustrands of the warp and woof. rality of weft strands arranged'one over the Like numerals designate like strands of other, said strands having an end portion of 03 threads in each of the several views. substantial length through which no warp Referring to the accompanying drawings, threads cross to provide an end portion of less I provide three sets of wet't strands 9, 11 and thickness than the main body of the padding, 13 as shown in detached relation in Fig. 5 of the ends of the respective strands eachbeing the drawings, which strands are crossed by looped and having a warp strand extending a, the warp threads 6, 7 and 8, leaving a portion through said loop.

near the end of the padding through which 3. The process of weaving a padding for go no warp threads extend, as shown in each use on ironing machines consisting in weavoi' the figures of-the drawings. At the loop ing the main body of the padding with a ends of the respective weft strands 9, 11 and series of two r more verlying Weft strands 9'? 13 there is formed the loops 10, 12 and 14, re with warp threads, discontinuing the weavspectively, as shown in Figs. 5 and 1 of the ing of warp threads at a substantial distance drawings and through these loops there eX- from the ends of the respective ends of the tends the single stout warp thread or cord 5 weft strands, looping the ends of the respecto form a loop selvedge with the unwoven Weft stmllclsfind threading Mingle p lengthsl of the respective weft threads 11 and thread 00rd through the looped ends of 1 7 0 l3 extending between the single warp thread the wett strands to provide a loop selvedge, and the warp threads 6,7 and 8,which occur substantially as and the PE P d in the main body of the fabric, thus leaving ed in e foregoing Specification the portion between the loop selvedge and-the EUGENE SITTON- 4: main body of the padding which iscompara- I tively light, flufi y and more compressible 95 than the main body of the padding, thus permitting of more evenly and advantageously rolling the padding around the ironing machine, as there is no abrupt end portion of the 100 padding, the loop selvedge construction caus- 

